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adjective

Graphical, Graphic adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics; as, graphic art work.

2.

Of or pertaining to the art of writing.

3.

Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. "The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters."

4.

Having the faculty of clear, detailed, and impressive description; as, a graphic writer.

5.

Well delineated; clearly and vividly described; characterized by, clear, detailed, and impressive description; vivid; evoking lifelike images within the mind; as graphic details of the President's sexual misbehavior; a graphic description of the accident; graphic images of violence.

Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, vivid.

6.

Hence: Describing nudity or sexual activity in explicit detail; as, a novel with graphic sex scenes.

7.

Relating to or presented by a graph (2); as, a graphic presentation of the data.

Synonyms: graphical.

Graphic algebra, a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines.

Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture.

Graphic formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.

Graphic granite. See under Granite.

Graphic method, the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees of temperature.

Graphical statics (Math.), a branch of statics, in which the magnitude, direction, and position of forces are represented by straight lines. Graphic tellurium. See Sylvanite.

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Etymology of 'Graphic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Graphic" Quotes from Famous Books

... growing longer and longer, and Christmas Day was rapidly drawing to a close, we turned towards the camp again. Bob Wilson had spent rather a dreary afternoon all by himself, but we cheered him with a graphic account of our visit to the two priests, got him some tea, and then when the sun had set behind the hills, adjourned to the public house, the Eldorado Hotel as it was called, there to take part in one of those festive entertainments, known as a ...

— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt

... afforded. And he pitched on Vancouver, not alone because Tommy Ashe was there, but because it was the biggest port on Canada's western coast. He had heard once from Tommy. He was a motor-car salesman now, and he was doing well. But Tommy's letter was neither long nor graphic in its descriptions. It left a good deal of Vancouver to Thompson's imagination. However, like the bear that went over the mountain, Thompson thought he would go and see what he ...

— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... leave for England, the papers in St. John's published the news of the loss of a large foreign-going vessel, laden with fish for the Mediterranean, near the very spot where our friend lived. On a visit a little later to the shipping office I found the event described in the graphic words of the skipper and mate. Our friend the consignee had himself been on board at the time the "accident" occurred. After prodigies of valour they had been forced to leave the ship, condemn her, and put her ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... to which I believe I may allude as a well-known and successful work without being guilty of any undue family conceit. That was essentially a woman's book. She saw with a woman's keen eye, and described with a woman's light but graphic pen, the social defects and absurdities which our near relatives had adopted into their domestic life. All that she told was worth the telling, and the telling, if done successfully, was sure to produce a good result. I am satisfied that it did so. But she ...

— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope

... once removed the gag, and Jose instantly burst forth with a perfect torrent of prayers for mercy, intermingled with the most earnest and graphic representations of what would happen to ...

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